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Restart.
APOCALYPSE. It's difficult to say how long you're unconscious. Whenever you do wake up, it's warm; your limbs will probably feel a bit heavy, and it might take a while for you to come back into yourself fully - whatever just happened, it's disorienting, weighing heavily on your body and leaving a heavy fog over your senses, and for a long moment it may be tempting to go back to sleep. Slowly, though, everything will start to seep back in. The confrontation with Cyrus. Countless beams of light smashing down to earth, tearing everything in their path away. Judgement. The end of the world. The ruins still seem, miraculously, to be intact; pushing yourself up to sit up and look around will make it clear that whatever protected you from the attack on the world is still present, a swirling field of white light encapsulating the area and forming a protective shield around your group. The Lake Guardians are present for a brief moment, hovering overhead in a manner that's easily read as concerned, but as soon as enough of you are awake they'll take their leave - it's difficult to say where they're going and why, given that they don't offer an explanation, but all three of them are together still, having seemed to have found each other eventually over the past little while. Their protection vanishes with them, and their departure may leave you feeling empty; on the other hand, it may not affect you at all, seeing as you have other things to worry about. Leaving the ruins themselves and returning to the center of Celestic Town, it will be immediately obvious that something is very, very wrong. The first noticeable difference is in the people of the town; it seems that Cyrus adhered to his word in that everyone is alive, having been reborn after the world was destroyed. But there's something unwelcome and familiar about them now - the inability to process very much, the staring with nothing behind it, the lack of drive or desire to do anything for themselves, it seems that everything about them that made them a person has once again been torn away from them, leaving them dead-eyed and spiritless. The other differences are less noticeable, but as the day goes on, something seems...off. Not just with the people, but with the world as a whole. The passage of time and the expansion of space are things that everyone takes for granted; as long as the day passes by, the sun moving across the sky to fade into night, it can be assumed that everything is working as it should be. But the longer you spend here, the more it becomes obvious that something feels wrong; the sun continues to pass overhead, night will eventually fall, but there's an undeniable sense that nothing is really happening. The perceived passage of time seems more and more irrelevant to you, giving way to a notion that you're just...stuck, somehow. That nothing is changing, despite evidence that it should be; that everything is strange and stagnant and still despite the fact that you're still moving forward. It's this, maybe, that makes you realize why Lucas is twelve at the oldest, despite the passage of at least five years; the flow of time, the expansion of space... Both have been disrupted and brought to a standstill. Take the day to get used to your new reality; it might take some time to get accustomed to. [OOC: Welcome to the start of Week 14, the end of the world, and the beginning of the second half of the game! No NPC response will be given to this post, though you can thread here amongst yourselves if you wish; we'll see you tomorrow at noon with a new log for your further adventures!] |
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[He's quiet for a moment once that's out there; no wonder Yuri's so fucked up by all this.]
We're gonna stop him, though. You know that.
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Yeah. I know. We stopped Alexei, and I know they're going to fix things back home. Hell, they might've already done it.
We've just gotta pick ourselves back up and keep going.
[Slowing down or stopping simply aren't options as far as he's concerned.]
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[...]
You okay? I don't want to hear that you're gonna be, either. Just right now.
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Can't get anything past you, can I?
I will be fine, yeah, but right now... not really. I know it's gotta be just as bad for some of the others - if not everyone - but I think I'll just... hang out here for a little while.
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[It's awkward, but. Yeah.]
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You don't have to. You've probably got plenty of other people you want to check on too, yeah?
[It's not a "no", though, and Yuri once again starts fiddling with the Pokéball.]
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[He doesn't mind.]
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[He shrugs like it's not a big deal, but it... kind of is. He doesn't usually get this upset in the first place and the few times he does he usually has Repede with him. He's missed his friends and his world, sure, but he hasn't really felt this alone until now, so having Jake here is... it's really important to him, in a way he could probably never explain, even if he wanted to.]
...It's good of you to check on me, but I promise I'll be okay in a little while.
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Don't worry, it's not like I'm signing up to babysit you or anything. I know you'll be fine.
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I guess someone's gotta keep an eye on me sometimes. No telling what I'll do otherwise.
[kill a dude, apparently???]
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[This is...nice isn't anywhere near the word he wants, but he definitely prefers being here with Yuri as opposed to being around everyone else for the time being.
It's not nice, but it's good.]
That sucks about the whole...reminding you of Alexei thing, though. Sorry about that.
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[He pauses while he tries to work out what he wants to say.]
...It feels kind of like an open wound, you know? It was just starting to heal, and then Cyrus shows up and basically yanks the bandages off.
I feel like I should've been able to stop Alexei earlier or... at least realized I should've been more careful around him. Estelle went through a lot because of him, and maybe if I'd just realized sooner...
[He sighs and runs a hand back through his hair.]
I shouldn't have assumed Cyrus would be like Alexei. It's not a mistake I'll make again.
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[It's...blunt, but there's nothing hard behind it.]
None of us knew what to do with Cyrus. Hell, I'm pissed that I didn't just kill him when he started threatening everyone - I don't even use weapons a lot of the time, I kill with my goddamn bare hands, I should've just broken his fucking neck. It's not like anything I could've done to him would've made the outcome any worse.
But none of us knew what the hell to do with any of that. And it's not like it was your fault with Alexei, either. From the sound of it, that guy fucked everyone over.
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Yeah. It's not like I blame Flynn for not noticing what Alexei was up to, and Flynn had to deal with the guy way more often than I did. It's just... frustrating, that all that happened. Estelle's seemed okay since we rescued her, but I never really did sit down and ask her how she was doing or anything.
[They were busy and it wasn't like they really had a lot of time to just sit and talk about their feelings. It's not like Yuri would normally want to do anything like that anyway?? But...]
I guess that's just how things go, though. You get some distance from it and you can tear it apart, find every little thing you should've done differently to change the outcome.
Things will be okay back home. And we'll make things right here and put a stop to Cyrus. We know what to expect now.
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[...He says, in a complete deadpan.]
But more seriously, maybe we'll learn more about what that was and how to stop it if we find those others Cynthia mentioned.
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You ever need anything, though, between then and now - you can let me know, okay?
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Same goes for you, you know. I really do appreciate you sitting with me for awhile, but this isn't easy for you either, yeah?
[Do you... want to talk about it...?]
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Like I said, you don't have to worry about me. I'm okay.
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Though if you don't want to talk about it right now that's fine, it's still a lot to process.
I just don't want you thinking you've gotta keep everything to yourself.
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[Mnnngh.]
I don't really know what I'm feeling about any of that right now? There isn't really anything going on in the feelings department right now.
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I'm pretty used to it being like that all the time, you know? Not that I try to shut that shit off, exactly, but more like I don't have time to deal with stuff. I can't really waste time on being upset or freaked out or fucked up over things, because there's usually something or someone else trying to kill me right after the last thing went down.
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